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Articles tagged "dennis hopper" TV ReviewIndependent Lens: The Cool Schoolby Cynthia Fuchs[10.Jun.08] :. Exploring the LA art scene of the 1950s and '60s, The Cool School appreciates the love of surface -- the self-performance and artifice, the illusory forward motion and devotion to consumption -- that defines the city. Featured Article Film DVD ReviewHearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypseby George Tiller[19.Dec.07] :. The openness and honesty with which Eleanor Coppola portrays her husband is by far the greatest asset of Hearts of Darkness. PopMatters Pick TV ReviewBrandoby Cynthia Fuchs[2.May.07] :. Brando is most original and inspiring when it looks at Brando's other work. As Bobby Seale remembers, "If I said, 'Constitutional democratic civil human rights,' I mean, it lit him up."  TV ReviewE-Ringby Cynthia Fuchs[11.Jan.06] :. Hopper plays McNulty with all kinds of pro-military gusto, though he's perpetually pissed off at the administration, because civilians tend to miss points and tactics. TV ReviewE-Ringby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Sep.05] :. No one else could make this dialogue sound like poetry quite like Dennis Hopper, so misfitted for his role as a Pentagon Colonel that he seems perversely perfect.  Film ReviewLand of the Dead (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Jun.05] :. Predictably macabre, darkly comic, and grimly class conscious, Land of the Dead imagines a world where humans turn against each other when facing dreadful fates. Inside Deep Throat (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Feb.05] :. Inside Deep Throat is less interested in the film's making than in its cultural and political fallouts. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex ‘N’ Drugs ‘N’ Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood: Denniby Michael Christopher[23.Aug.04] :. While Scorsese, Spielberg, and Coppola have become legends, they have also become what they once rebelled against: the system. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)by John G. Nettles[12.May.03] :. It is, quite simply, the Hollywood Western in full flower, with all the nostalgia and sins of commission and omission that that implies. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)by Tobias Peterson'Apocalypse Now Redux', ultimately, allows us to celebrate a film that has become indelibly ingrained into American popular consciousness while, at the same time, forcing us to question the violence and inhumanity that characterize the troubling past of this same culture. Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs'Apocalypse Now' -- 'Redux' or regular -- is well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions. In both versions, it's that rare movie that looks hard at the culture that produced it. |
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